Top 5 running backs in 2011 NFL Draft One of the youngest groups but the one with some of the most talent, however donât expect to see a rash of them go until later in the draft. Here are five players who you could see getting picked early on.

Ten Big East players to watch this college season While talk of expansion continues to dominate the headlines for the Big East, the conference itself is looking to rebound from a somewhat disappointing 2010 campaign.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Panthers announced they've signed free agent running back/kick returner Jordan Todman from the Jacksonville Jaguars to a one-year contract.
Financial details were not released Monday.
Todman, 25, has spent the last three...

Carson Cross of UConn is having a great season. He is 6-1 with a 1.49 ERA, 65 strikeouts, and teams are batting .178 against him. He was named AAC pitcher of the week for the second time this season. And Vinny Siena of Woodbridge had nine RBI and scored seven runs in five games last week. Yes, it's baseball season despite what we see and feel when we walk outside. ... Providence College's Kris Dunn of New London and Yale's Justin Sears earned AP All-America honorable mention honors in men's basketball. .....

You've made your list. You've checked it twice. And in Week 16 you'll find out which fantasy football picks were naughty or nice. Hopefully you've remembered to sack the man from Santa Claus, Ind. They won't let poor Jay Cutler play in anymore Bears games.
Sorry if you were counting on another week of Cutler's garbage-time production to carry you to a championship, but there are plenty of other options available to you.
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Matthew Stafford, QB, Lions at Bears Stafford's penchant for self-sabotage...

PASSING GAME
RAVENS: Quarterback Joe Flacco is three touchdown passes away from tying his career high of 25 and he's on pace to throw for more than 4,000 yards for the first time in his career. In his past five games, he's thrown eight touchdown passes and two interceptions. The Ravens are averaging 240.8 passing yards per game, which would represent their highest season average since 1996. With Torrey Smith ailing, Kamar Aiken has nine catches for 116 yards and a touchdown over the past two weeks....

If you're going to create a cartoon parody of fantasy football, what better foils than Bears teammates Jay Cutler and Matt Forte? They're an apt illustration of how real-life football and fantasy football diverge: The Bears have a 5-8 record, yet Cutler and Forte rank 11th and fourth in scoring among quarterbacks and running backs, respectively.
Animator Kurtis Scott, 36, plays this disparity to perfection in his cartoon, "Fantasy Night Lights." In it, a fantasy football coach tries to motivate Cutler,...

Injuries are a pain (sorry about that) -- unless you're the beneficiary. That looks to be a recurring theme in Week 6 as key injuries on offense and defense present opportunities for certain players to fill up the fantasy football stat sheets.
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Giovani Bernard, RB, Bengals vs. Panthers
Wide receiver A.J. Green, frustrated by a reaggravated toe injury, is expected to miss this game. But the team's loss is Bernard's gain. With tight end Tyler Eifert on injured reserve with a designation to...

Randy Edsall has done the future before. This time, it was about his past.
The architect of the modern UConn football program, Edsall was introduced Monday as the 34th head coach at Maryland, calling the opportunity to work at the school a "dream job" that harkens back to the days of his youth when he, his father, Dick, and brother Duke would attend games at Byrd Stadium.
Halfway between Baltimore and Washington, D.C., the Maryland campus is also 70 miles from Edsall's childhood home of Glen Rock, Pa....